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by glofish 4y ago
What is your interpretation of the following quote then? > The pooled results of RCTs did not show a clear reduction in respiratory viral infection with the use of medical/surgical masks. > There were no clear differences betwe
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by glofish 4y ago
Love the speech like any other nerd, but I must say Agent Smith is wrong about it all. Mammals do not "reach equilibrium" on their own. Check out some rat infestation videos on farms. If anything viruses show more moderation. At a
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by glofish 4y ago
you are conflating storytelling with the plot ... see how easy is to criticise analogies ... there is/was plenty of fresh storytelling in every age
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by glofish 4y ago
I think the whole food analogy is missing the main point we are not reusing someone else's food to create a new frozen food. Frozen-ness is about mass production - but not about the origin of that food. It just conflates unrelated issu
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by glofish 4y ago
But it is not like that ... at all. Analogies run the risk of being completely wrong. A frozen food is made of real food, the process all starts from scratch with "natural" ingredients (well ingredients). The frozen food vs fresh
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by glofish 4y ago
you seem to be implying these would be the same people and that those quitting normally would not be replaced
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by glofish 4y ago
10k here, 20k there, next thing we're talking real numbers.
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by glofish 4y ago
Recruited 17 (most likely non-random) people each of whom skipped a SINGLE breakfast, then had 3 regular days, then skipped a SINGLE dinner ... Basic common sense indicates that it would be highly unlikely that anything of value could possi
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by glofish 4y ago
Aren't most of those water bubbles from the fresh water that is coming in? Last time I checked these high powered toilets first suck things down, then fill it up with water. The scary plume seems like a recurring pattern of scientists
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by glofish 4y ago
> Nonconformity to the cultural zeitgeist is more acceptable now than it has ever been. Until covid it looked to be true yet they reached to the same tools without a second thought But it is true in that it turns around more quickly - it
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by glofish 4y ago
but maybe what you see is what you are made to see the constant harping and relentless barrage of information that every major storm, landslide or flood "could have been" caused by humanity itself yes we should be more careful and
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by glofish 4y ago
you are conflating the size of the codebase with the number of dependencies Django has fewer dependencies than Flask. (though in all fairness the dependencies Flask has were developed by the same author, thus in that sense, it is more like
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by glofish 4y ago
and you will learn almost nothing from sequencing and studying your own genome at best you waste your time, at worst you will find all kinds of things that are not there it is the Silicon Valley hacker mentality that thinks the life is some
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by glofish 4y ago
Those looking for a proper and comprehensive introduction into genomics from a programmer's perspective should try the Biostar Handbook: https://www.biostarhandbook.com/ I have learned so much from it. It is an introdu
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by glofish 4y ago
Crypto will never be worthless! People mistakenly believe that the two option you have are valuable or zero. Instead it is a scale from positive to negative value. For example a legislation to have bitcoin "pay for" the environme
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by glofish 4y ago
This is a great point - crypto will have utility. But for whom? What how much is that utility really worth? And what kind of utility? That is what keeps shifting and what all the pro-contra propaganda is about. In fact the bitcoin could ev
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by glofish 4y ago
denial is a powerful drug, you are surrounded by people celebrating your genius, everything you touch turns to billions and billions it is easy to see how someone gets disconnected from reality and ends up living in the metaverse of their
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by glofish 4y ago
It feels like it was just yesterday when the CEO declared on Twitter that all the problems are localized at international FTX.com and that funds at FTX.us are 100% safe! Oh wait, it was yesterday.
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by glofish 4y ago
That is a valid point - no one knows what the future holds But we have to take into account that the active traders have been repeatedly making the same claim. How many times is one allowed to make the a similar claim before losing credibil
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by glofish 4y ago
I find it really weird that they had to decompile the smart contract. That surprised, me I thought the whole point of these smart contracts were that everyone could see them like the transactions that take place.
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by glofish 4y ago
The whole point of index funds is that individual decisions - no matter how well reasoned they appear - don't seem to work out long term. The decision protocol that looks good today and may have worked once, twice of five times in the
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by glofish 4y ago
the problem is that that you only know too late which ones were the dumb companies tens of thousands of active traders try to beat SP500 all the time - how many succeed ...
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by glofish 4y ago
Why would random user be smarter than the active traders? now consider that historically, the overwhelming majority of active managers perform worse than SP500 ... so there, it is always easy to be smart retroactively, if you cashed out las
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by glofish 4y ago
then it wasn't overpriced no? Overpriced means that you can get it for cheaper.
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by glofish 4y ago
I feel like this same topic is being revisited on a regular basis. Most likely ever since index funds existed active traders hated them. Here is an article from 2010: "Index Funds are distorting the markets" https://www
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by glofish 4y ago
prices are rising because we want to use the same amount of fuel as before use less and the prices will be falling
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by glofish 4y ago
that is the exact purpose of the action, reduce demand it does suck being on the receiving end - I do sympathise - and I am simply making an observation
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by glofish 4y ago
or it could mean people waste a lot less - we all know in the western world waste is gigantic
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by glofish 4y ago
By sucking the money out of the system. It reduces demand - in the modern world the prices are disconnected from cost of production - instead reflect the demand for that product - how much can it be sold for
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by glofish 4y ago
Notably the status quo for decades of research pre-covid was that masks don't work ... Then in 2020 hysteria broke out, most scientists got scared shtless and you could only publish papers that indicate that masks work even though all

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